Singapore polymer clay house, where the children are given the happy space, to play, to learn, hands-on and create fun polymer clay art project.
Helping and teaching the child to learn a life skill, developing their fine motorskills, improving hand-eye coordination and building the child's self-esteem.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

ENCHANTING PROJECT BY SAMANTHA

Samantha's passion and love for polymer clay arts finally, completed her enchanting diorama project, base on "Fairies, Gnomes & Trolls" by Maureen Carlson.Her project was temporary shelved, when she go for her Dental Study in Australia.Samantha have been playing and creating beautiful polymer clay arts with our workshop for the past 10 years, she back from Australia for one week break, taking the opportunity to complete her project at the workshop. She will continue her claying, whenever she in Singapore for her school holiday .Her passion, patient, skill and creativity in clay, will make her a even more skillful Dentist, when she graduated from her study.

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Maureen Peck CarlsonGarie, you are a good teacher. Loved seeing Samantha's work. Tell her that she did a great job. The figures make me smile and smile. I shared your blog post on my facebook page.

Polymer clay is alive and well in Singapore, thanks in part to Garie Sim. He posted photos on his blog of clay creations made by one of his students, Samantha, inspired by my book, Fairies, Gnomes and Trolls. What fun! it's humbling to see a reflection from half a world away.

Patty Woods Polymer clay is one of the ways my youngest son and I bond. Great article Maureen, thank you for sharing.

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Garie Sim Thanks Maureen, Polymer clay is the medium that allows you to play and create, kaleidoscope of color, pattern, textures and beautiful art pieces, that last a lifetime, it's therapeutic for our brain and help the special needs. PC develop well-being for young, old and all ages, it is a physical language that we can share with people all over the World and we are very happy creating it.

Thank you, Garie, for sending the link. Loved it. And I really like howyou expressed yourself when you said that polymer clay is a physicallanguage that can be shared with people all over the world. True.I'll try to check in to your blog from time to time to see what is happeningat your place.Best wishes from Minnesota, USAMaureen Carlson

About Me

Garie Sim is an artist, designer and Creative Polymer Clay teacher in Singapore. Since his discovery of the versatility of Polymer clay in the early 1980s, he has created lots of clay miniatures for his own children. Garie created the world's smallest teddy bear in polymer clay, tested the clay in water and combined it with other materials like magnets, film spool, ping-pong balls and other common household things to create toys, gifts, jewelry and crafts. Garie’s years of research, testing and experiments have created new techniques. Some of the new techniques are microwaving polymer clay beads in water, shrinking styrofoam, making liquid clay paints, making realistic miniature cakes that can be added with baking soda and many others. With polymer clay he has also created various types of ‘Antvironment’, which is a living habitat for ants, with the ants successfully living up to their life span and proving that the polymer clay is non-toxic to living things. During the past twenty-six years, Garie's diversity in creating with clay has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and craft and clay magazines, and also on news and kids' television programs, both locally and internationally. Many of his original creations with polymer clay are unique, unusual, whimsical and imaginative. Together with his family, Garie has been conducting play clay and drawing classes to promote creativity in Singapore since 1997. As polymer clay is not commonly used in local schools or found in local art retail outlets, he has also become a major supplier for polymer clay, tools and accessories to cater to the needs of his students. In addition, he is actively promoting polymer clay as a very versatile material for artistic creation by conducting demonstrations in schools, clay parties and other similar events in Singapore. He creates polymer clay tutorials and projects for international magazines and online journals. Garie also uses polymer clay for commercial and educational clay animation projects.

The play clay classes he conducts are for children and adults to learn various clay techniques. These classes have successfully groomed many young and creative artists and many are featured in local newspapers for children. With his passion for the arts, Garie is the wizard behind the magic of clay, the remarkable individuality of the children, all coming from diverse backgrounds and with different capabilities (some with learning disorders such as dyslexia, autism, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity), is brought out in their play of the clay. It shows the way toward self-expression and the attaining of a sense of self through the act of creation. According to Garie, clay art is a powerfully therapeutic activity and it helps realize any child’s dream.